[Web4lib] "Who Owns XML?"

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from: 
http://www.technologyreview.com/articles/05/10/wo/wo_102605roush.asp?p=1

Who Owns XML? 
By Wade Roush October 26, 2005 
_MIT Technology Review_
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For Web programmers, the Extensible Markup Language (XML) is not only a lingua
franca -- it's the water that floats the boat, the air that holds up the
plane. In other words, it's a free resource without which the rest of the Web
wouldn't work. 

Developed by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) between 1996 and 1998, XML
has become the dominant way of describing and structuring data so that it can
be shared across the Internet and displayed in any browser. 

But now executives at Scientigo, a small software maker based in Charlotte,
NC, say the company owns two U.S. patents (No. 5,842,213 and No. 6,393,426),
that cover one of the fundamental concepts behind XML: the idea of packaging
data in a self-defining format that allows it to be correctly displayed
wherever it travels. 
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